St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
SCOTLAND YARD
Detectives Who Protect High Off
Gals From Possible Murder.

Detectives Who Protect High Off
Gals From Possible Murder.
BY Cable to the Globe.
LONDON, Oct. S.-The Scotland Yard
officials profess to have received infor
nation to the effect that a number of
American Fenians are contemplating a
series of dynamite outrages in Ireland
and England. Return ships at Queens
town and Liverpool are closely watched,
and sharp watch is kept upon the
American Fenians by trusted agents in
New York. All the special precautions
times of 1881 and 1888 have been revived
for the protection, of course, of the
home secretary and the chief secretary
for Ireland, who are the functionaries
to whom violence are most frequently
visited. At times of alleged special ac-
tiyity in Fenian circles Sir William
Harcourt used to be surrounded by
bodyguards of detectives. Mr.. Glad
stone, whose physical courage, or rather
insensibility to danger, is one of his
most marked characteristics, used to
give the police authorities great trouble
by his unwiilingneSs to be protected
and his disregard of precautions. One
evening in January. 1881. while Fosters
the commons, Sir William Harcourt was
entertaining some friends at dinner at
his house, in Grafton street. During
dinner the servant announced that one
of the chief officials from Scotland Yard
had come to see the home secretary OH
important business. Sir William left
the table and did not rejoin his guests
that evening. Some months later he
MADE AN EXPLANATION
to one of the guests. A warning had
reached Scotland Yard that MIR. Glad
stone was to be murdered that night on
his way from the house of commons to
Downing street and Sir William was
sent for in the hope that he might be
able to do what the police could not
persuade Mr.. Gladstone to go home in
his carriage when the house rose in
stead of walking as was his custom.
to do. He ''pooh-hooed' the whole
affair and walked home as usual, fol-
lowed without his consent, by several
detectives who used to say that the
prime minister's activity made him more
difficult to follow than any thief who
ever lodged the officers of the law. A
similar story is told by gentleman who
was Sergeant-at-armS in the house of
commons in the Chartist times. When
Lord John Russell was prime minister
Sir George Grey, who was home secre-
tary, sent for the sergeant one day and
said: Letters have reached the home
office threatening Lord John Russell.
Tell one of the house of commons officers
to walk home after him to Beecham
place every night" When. the sergeant
replied: ooh, that's all right; we al
ways see Lord John safe home and Sir
George too" The damaging admissions
at Ennis, of CalIinan, the informer, have
greatly
EXCITED FENIAN CIRCLES
in this city and Paris, and suspicion
prevails among them that certain blat-
ant fenians in America have for years
been in the pay of the British govern
ment. Callinan admitted that he planned
the raid on Farmer Sections house in
order to deliver his companions over to
the police, and that all his expenses
were paid by the government. The
question naturally arises, were the par
ties who have planned the dynamite
OutrageS of recent years also paid by the
government? 1t is certainly strange that
all the dynamiterS hailing from America
were captured, promptly convicted and
sent to prison, number for life terms.
1t is true that the testimony of the
Brooklyn informer, Jim McDermott. Sc
cured the conviction of number of
them, but the belief now prevails that
Red jim" had assistants in America.
The fenianS in London and in Paris dis
claim any knowledge Of intended out
RACES, land say that If any are perpetrated
they will be committed by party plotters
of the Callinan stripe, at the instigation
of the government, for the purpose of
injuring the home rule cause and crea-
ting reaction in favor of it's coercion
policy.